The investigators want to shed light on the tragedy that occurred between 7 and 8 January in the gynecology department of the Sandro Pertini hospital in Rome , where a woman allegedly fell asleep while breastfeeding her just three-day-old son by crushing him .
The Rome prosecutor's office has opened an investigation file with the hypothesis of a crime of manslaughter, currently against unknown persons, and has ordered an autopsy (the results will arrive in 60 days).
Among the points to be clarified is first of all that of lack of surveillance: according to the protocol , hospital staff should have supervised all breastfeeding and then returned the newborn to the cradle. The rules and agreements provide for it precisely to avoid the collateral damage of co-sleeping, considered one of the main causes of death for newborns.
In this case, however, the mother, according to a reconstruction, would have taken the baby in her arms in the late afternoon and the nurse on duty would have noticed the tragedy only after midnight .
We also need to ascertain the exact position in which the little body was found: some witnesses remember it, cyanotic, under the mother. Others instead side by side to the woman, which would suggest a natural death.
Meanwhile, the investigators have acquired a series of documents at the hospital, including the woman's medical records.
(Unioneonline/D)
